Abuja — Nigeria's former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr. Christopher Kolade, at the weekend said the Federal Government's multi-billion naira expansion of Abuja Airport road to 10 lanes was unnecessary as the government would have rather diverted such huge amount of funds into re-habilitation of the 'long neglected' Benin-Ore road, which was more important and key to Nigeria's realization of Vision 20:2020.
In fact, Kolade who was the Guest Speaker at the Abuja Zonal Dinner/Alumni Session of the Lagos Business School, believed that Nigeria's quest to be amongs the World's 20 biggest economies by the year 2020 may be unsuccessful if the government continued to neglect some important aspects of economic development.
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